Colleagues I have spent time with this week are facing a combination of challenges that threaten to overwhelm them and threaten the progress we have achieved together over the last ten years...
We all know that we face huge budget cuts, capital funding disappearing and an increasing difficulty attracting and retaining talented colleagues in a landscape that is increasingly negative and destructive. However, we must stay positive and look more creatively at these challenges. These challenges are really opportunities for talented colleagues and the future of our public services critically depends on how we respond. More than ever we need to develop and support brilliant leadership, encourage social enterprise, enable and empower communities, champion responsibilities alongside rights and look to develop civic companies enabling local authorities to champion and commission rather than provide services.
It is important that we rise to these challenges and continue our relentless and uncompromising focus on the thing that really matter; securing world class outcomes for all our children and young people ... whatever it takes!
Chris
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